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OLEAN — Higher revenue estimates due to sales taxes and municipal aid should help balance the city budget, but losses to water revenue mean higher rat...

ALBANY (TNS) — Deep-pocketed donors flooded New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign coffers with cash in recent months as the state’s top Democrat repea...

ALBANY (AP) — New York state residents are getting an extra month to file their state income taxes. State Budget Director Robert Mujica Jr. said Frida...

Local sales taxes saw mixed results in February, but most municipalities saw a decrease in collections from the year before. State Comptroller Tom DiN...

BUFFALO — Keeping the Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park from going under during the pandemic has been hard enough without also having to wor...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — After the American Rescue Plan waived taxes on canceled student loan debt, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer believes there...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is joining in supporting legislation to create an “ultra-millionaire” tax on fortunes over $50 million. The ...

ALBANY (TNS) — The STAR school tax break is once again becoming a source of contention between lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In the governor’s budg...

OLEAN — Mayor Bill Aiello on Tuesday released a tentative 2021-22 city budget with a general fund totaling $17,737,060 and carrying a 1.3% tax levy in...

ALLEGANY — While the community of Allegany continues to maintain daily life during the continuing pandemic, leaders are hopeful that proposed state ai...

BELVIDERE — A $500 million cheese plant would bring 200 new manufacturing jobs to Allegany County, officials said, but would close and relocate the cu...

BELMONT — The Allegany County Industrial Development Agency sought comments Tuesday on a proposed solar-energy project in the town of Independence. So...

Local sales tax receipts were higher in 2020 than they were in 2019, but lower returns statewide, aid cuts and additional tax withholdings continue to...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The Cattaraugus County Industrial Development Agency’s tax policy for eligible commercial wind projects was amended Tuesday to the sam...

How does a state that isn’t supposed to borrow money without voter approval still manage to borrow billions every year? When even New York legislators...

ALBANY (TNS) — With New York anticipating a multi-billion-dollar deficit for years to come, progressive groups are uniting in their efforts to convinc...

OLEAN — For Olean residents who pay their Cattaraugus County taxes at the city clerk’s office in the Olean Municipal Building, get ready for a change....

While most counties and cities in the region saw lower sales tax receipts in November, most came in ahead of statewide losses. Across the state, local...